Parents press Troy board for clearer discipline and notification policies after toy gun incident at Concord Elementary

Parents at Monday's Troy Board of Education meeting pressed the board to tighten discipline documentation and school notification practices after a recent incident at Concord Elementary in which a student brought an object some adults believed to resemble a firearm.

Andrew Bush and other parents said the district's incident reporting lacks transparency and that minor behaviors are not consistently recorded, which can make it difficult to document repeated harassment or bullying. Bush said a student received a three-day suspension for bringing the object, and that a later threat involving the same student resulted in another three-day suspension; he said the two incidents should have been considered together when…